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The gender of things : how epistemic and technological objects become gendered / edited by Maria Rentetzi.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Rentetzi, Maria, editor.
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sex role.
Material culture.
Language and languages--Sex differences.
Language and languages.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Gender.
Grammar, Comparative and general.
Sociolinguistics.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 233 pages) : illustrations (black and white.
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Contents:
Sealing wax and string / Donald L. Opitz
Butter : fat lions and dairy girls / Anna Frasca-Rath
Gendered images of chromosomes / María Jesús Santesmases
Godofredo and Françoise travel around the world : phantoms, radioiodine uptake tests, and the IAEA's standardization projects / Maria Rentetzi
The tell-tale heart : multiple ontologies of the first human donor heart / Annerose Böhrer and Larissa Pfaller
Colourful minilabs : cosmeceuticals at the interface of gender, technology, and knowledge transfers / Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez
Gendered mobility : early motor scooting around 1920 / Heike Weber
A make-up kit from the National Air and Space Museum / Eleanor S. Armstrong
The fan : gendered bodily communication at the intersection of salon semiotics, fashion, political campaigning, and menopause relief / Annette Keilhauer
Gendering the boundary object : "Sophia the Robot" as cyborg-woman, fashionista, citizen, and imagination / Roger A. Søraa and Nienke Bruijning
Animating machines, alienating women : Siri and Alexa as affective linguistic labourers / Siri Lamoureaux and Alexa Hagerty
Dangerous erections : gender, race, and the engineering of Trump's border wall / Amy E. Slaton
Paternity and pedigree : how academic genealogical databases become gendered / Rebecca M. Herzig
Is the scrum board feminine? / Stefan Sauer and Amelie Tihlarik.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.
Other Format:
ebook version :
ISBN:
9781003379225 (electronic bk.)
1003379222 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Number:
40032212824
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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